Time for a little history, in 1973 Doctor Martin Cooper of Motorola demonstrated the first mobile phone handset. Ten years later in 1983 the DynaTAC 8000x became the first commercially available.

Optus is twenty years old as they began commercial operations on 31 January 1992 having been awarded Australia’s first competitive carrier licence on 19 November 1991 from its beginning Optus has grown to a company that supports nine million mobile services, one million fixed and broadband customers and thousands of Australian businesses.
Vicki Brady Optus Divisional Managing Director commented “The Australian mobile market has grown dramatically over the last 20 years. While mobile phones were once a luxury item, today there are almost 25 million mobile handsets in operation, more than one for every Australian,”
Optus began selling services on 15 June 1992. On the same day, the first Optus store was opened on the corner of Pitt Street and Spring Street in Sydney. The cheapest mobile phone on sale a Motorola that retailed for $750, had a $65 connection fee and a monthly ‘line rental’ fee of around $30 per month.